[ReaganIsRight]

I hate to say this but I heard about the problem in the CO elk after my brother-in-law was out there on a hunt.

You know it always gets worse before it gets better. I'm afraid you might have to shoot a lot of deer and dispose of the meat, unless you can avoid the diseased stuff.

I heard the similar CJD in England was NOT XMIT'd by eating bad meat. The stomach acids should kill any proteins before they ever get to the blood stream.

We need more study and a solution that will get the herds back to health.

Remember the clowns who sold billions of drugs a year to treat ulcers, caused by a bacteria -- something you could see with any good microscope. We need somebody who can treat this and eliminate it.

[TexasGunRunner]

Of course, given the competition in Colorado for elk permits and the general feeling of Coloradans about "furrieners," maybe they are furthering urban (rural?) legends to increase their own chances of drawing a permit.

Seriously though, last I checked (last season), the demand for elk permits in Colorado, Wyoming, and Idaho was very high. If somebody had contracted the human version of CWD, that would have made big news throughout the hunting world because of the number of guides operating in those states.

[logic101.net]

That is exactly what I have been saying, about avoiding the diseased deer. The USDA won't allow us to get them tested! This means that we don't know, which means that many hunters won't be going out; which means that we won't be able to thin the herds....